With Takahiro Sasaki, Professor, former Director of the Institute of Oriental Classics, Keiô University (Tôkyô). As part of Strasbourg World Book Capital and Japanese Culture Month at Unistra.
The speaker demonstrated that movable type printing in Japan (late 16th - early 17th c.) had two sources: China and Korea on the one hand, and Portuguese Christian missionaries on the other. Their dialogue reminds us that the material history of the book is nourished by fertile interactions between different geographical and cultural spaces.
Mon.24.03 | 6pm | Lecture | Auditorium | Free | Reservation required
The speaker demonstrated that movable type printing in Japan (late 16th - early 17th c.) had two sources: China and Korea on the one hand, and Portuguese Christian missionaries on the other. Their dialogue reminds us that the material history of the book is nourished by fertile interactions between different geographical and cultural spaces.
Mon.24.03 | 6pm | Lecture | Auditorium | Free | Reservation required
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